Search underway for Kennedy Townsend’s daughter, grandson

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS – Divers and boats are back searching in the Chesapeake Bay for the bodies of the daughter and a grandson of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend after they didn’t return from a canoe ride.

Maryland Natural Resources Police say the search resumed Saturday after being suspended late Friday.

Police and Kennedy Townsend now call the search a recovery operation.

The missing canoeists are Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and her 8-year-old son Gideon.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the eldest daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the niece of the late President John F. Kennedy.

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